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...Georgetown 71, Providence...
...propaganda advocating "armed struggle," as hi El Salvador and Namibia. All of this can be broadly defined as terrorism, Dyess claimed, be cause it "creates a climate in which terrorism flourishes." Despite Dyess's attempt to soften Haig's accusation, it set off a sharp debate. Said Georgetown University Professor Walter Laqueur, an expert on terrorism: "I sympathize with Haig's sentiments, but I regret the lack of precision in his words. It is very difficult to know what he means...
...Reagan Administration. Charles Wick and Alfred Bloomingdale, California friends of the new President, have moved there. The most elegant piece of real estate in town, of course, has been taken by the Ronald Reagans, but there are still a few choice homes for sale in the Georgetown section. Prices start at about $150,000-for one of the neighborhood's quaint 7-ft.-wide townhouses -and go up to sums that would buy a whole subdivision in other U.S. cities...
Lights, camera, action. On a video tape made at a house in Georgetown, Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, 56, tells an FBI agent posing as the representative of two fictitious Arab sheiks that he will help them immigrate to the U.S. Then, just before stuffing $25,000 into his coat pockets, he says: "If I told you how poor I am, you'd cry. I mean, the tears would roll down your eyes." In a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week, the tears were streaming from his wife Judy's eyes as Kelly, who was voted out of office last...
...elections and ensconcing Raja'i as their figurehead Prime Minister. But the intervening war with Iraq greatly strengthened the President's hand by giving him an active military role as Commander in Chief and winning him the crucial support of the army. Says Barry Rubin of the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies: "Banisadr has won popularity through the war effort. Now he has just a short time to try to tar his opponents with the settlement. It won't remain a hot issue for long...